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Derby (on-site 5 days)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Maximo Developer to join Rolls‑Royce Submarines.

We’re a leader in propulsion system design and development for the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarine fleet and the sole provider and technical authority.

Our submarines business is responsible for the design, manufacture, supply and through‑life support of nuclear propulsion‑related products and systems in support of the Royal Navy's submarine fleet. You can find out more about the amazing projects that we are working on here: https://youtu.be/x19YSPecrf8

Rolls‑Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

The Service Data Management (SDM) Project is an ongoing project within Rolls‑Royce Submarines rationalising executive and non‑executive systems to simplify the management of in‑service data used across the Submarines engineering population.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Maximo is the IBM enterprise asset management software selected as the tool of choice. Using this software has enabled the Submarines business to reduce data management load, simplify data entry, integrated data quality/governance and provide more holistic reporting capabilities. The SDM project has redefined how the business records and accesses in‑service information and provides a long‑term solution to the ‘single source of truth’ for platform and asset history.

You will be taking new engineering data sources discovered by the Data Transformation project and migrating into Maximo to make the data accessible to the Submarines engineering population. The project will also continually maintain existing functionality within Maximo, through bug fixing and improvements identified through end user feedback.

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

You will be responsible for development and configuration of IBM Maximo to host new engineering data sources.

• Participation in every part of the software development life cycle encompassing design, document, develop, test and release
• Analysing and resolving software errors to improve applications
• Conducting extensive unit testing of applications, including the use of automated testing tools.
• Travel to UK Rolls‑Royce satellite offices as required for demonstrations, User Acceptance, Testing and stakeholder collaboration.

At Rolls‑Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need to have a positive can‑do attitude and embrace challenges, we also ask for,

• A willingness to learn and adapt to change and conflicting priorities while being hands on and detail oriented
• Knowledge of SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle database environments plus data loading for IBM Maximo
• Working knowledge of IBM Maximo for Aviation (advantage)
• Good Structured Query Language (SQL) writing skills
• Experience providing support to customers or end users
• Experience of working with requirements, including the ability to provide advice on technical content where required.
• Experience with the creation of documentation such as Test Scripts and Training Guides
• Appropriate Software accreditation in chosen discipline, such as IBM Maximo Certification or equivalent (desirable)
• Awareness of alignment with Cognos reporting

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls‑Royce

To work for the Rolls‑Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls‑Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category Digital

Posting Date 24 Nov 2025; 00:11

Posting End Date 01 Dec 2025